So: Andrew has a chance of killing one of the annoying kids, and he shoots - Ofelia? Really? What a wasted chance.

Cagney started tap-dancing as a boy, and was a vaudevillian before getting into films, so his Oscar as the singing, dancing George M. Cohan wasn't that much of a surprise. For another take on Cagney as a dancer, check out this great clip from the 1955 film The Seven Little Foys where Cagney - 56 years old - goes…

You're not alone.

Really glad to see Toby Jones here; I can't think of anything I've seen him in where he isn't great.

I posted a couple of weeks back to say that I'd missed three episodes in August when I was out of town, and then didn't want to watch the next one until I'd caught up, which I was wondering whether to do in light of the reviews/comments here (which I read; I ain't afraid of no spoilers). Until my August hiatus I was…

Just think what could have been done with the minutes wasted on Alicia and Chris playing dress-up and trashing a neighbour's house. We could have had more Ruben Blades, or Colman Domingo, or even just a tracking shot through that crazy garden maze thing beside the house. Anything would have been more interesting.

To be fair, Kim Dickens is doing her best to help him. It'd be nice if a couple of others stepped up to the plate.

Interesting to see the difference between Liza and Travis, when push comes to shove. Pacifist Travis can't bring himself to do what needs to be done just because the woman is wearing a badge that shows her name, while Liza does what needs to be done to a woman she knows and has cared for. Nice twist on the expected…

Not my pop culture weekend, but my son was an assistant on the filming of Penny Dreadful last week, as it filmed some scenes in the interior of British Columbia. He had called me to ask if I knew the show, and I said yes, it was my favourite currently airing TV series. We're in a semi-desert area, so I guess scenes…

The Fontana edition with the cover illustration by Tom Adams? I have that one too. http://bit.ly/1Fpy7ta

Hays Coded it may be, but the 1945 version is still pretty sharp, with a couple of gleefully amoral characters (Mischa Auer's Russian prince, Louis Hayward's adventurer), a clever 'who's following whom?' scene, and some very black humour. My favourite line (and reading) is when several characters are trying to…

Shackleton didn't have dogs on the Endeavour, and after catastrophe struck managed to keep everyone together, carry out an amazing sea voyage, and then hike across Elephant Island for help, losing not a single man. So I'm in the 'hero' camp.

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Beck Weathers - played in the film by Josh Brolin - survived the disaster, although it was a near thing, and wrote about it in a book called Left for Dead. It's an engrossing account of the 1996 disaster, even if Weathers (probably unintentionally) comes across as a somewhat self-absorbed…

Yes, he does. I can't remember if Poitier's FBI guy works with the Vancouver Police Dept. or the RCMP when he gets to Vancouver. It's an interesting jurisdictional question: the VPD is in charge of Vancouver, but the RCMP, as a federal agency, controls the airport because of international arrivals. Since Brown's…

Anyone else remember the Sidney Poitier/Tom Berenger/Kirstie Alley film Shoot to Kill from 1988? That's about the first thing I can remember that was filmed in Vancouver and allowed Vancouver to play itself. As someone born and raised in Vancouver, it was great to see places I knew pretty well used as settings (the…

And now we know what the walkers/biters/don't say the zed word creatures are called in this universe: the infected.

How can that happen? FtWD is taking place at least two years earlier than where TWD is right now.

I was hoping for that too, especially with Daniel watching. Would have changed the dynamic between those two characters (for the better, I think).

I did like Daniel's comment after watching Madison not 'kill' Susan: 'Weak.' And I do like it that he seems to be a pretty ruthless, eye to the main chance sort of guy, and not some magical Hispanic character.

I'm a Vancouver Canucks fan (although I don't live in Vancouver anymore), and watching those scenes I said to my husband 'Looks like Vancouver during the Stanley Cup riots in 2011.' Rioting for the sake of it is exactly it. People don't need a reason; they just join in.